Tank construction.



A. W. KEGLER.

TANK CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED APR.28, 1915.

1,203,007. Patented Oct. 31,1916.

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UNITED STATES ANTON W. KEGLER, 0F WATERLOO, IOWA.

TANK CONSTRUCTION.

Application filed April 28, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON WV. Iinomsn, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tank Construction, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in tank construction, and theobject of my improvement is to so construct and brace the parts of atank as to render it strong and resistant to strain and hard usage. Thisobject I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter describedand claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of an open-topped tank of myimproved construction. Fig. 2 is a partial transverse vertical section,on an enlarged scale, of my said tank, with parts broken away, andshowing the details of the brace-connections and the joints and otherreinforcements of the tank-parts. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detailelevation of a part of the outside sidewall of the tank, showing thereinforcing upright mounted thereon.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout theseveral views.

My improved tank comprises a bottomplate 3 and a side-wall 1. The tankhas an open top, but it is obvious that the same might be closed ifdesired, without departing from the invention herein. The bottomplate 3has a raised rim. The lower part of said side-wall is reversely foldedat f to provide, first, an upwardly-opening fold, and second, adownwardly-opening fold, with the outer wall of the latter fold car riedunder and clenched upon the bottom of said bottom-plate 3, when theraised rim of the latter has been seated within the cavity of saiddownwardly-opening fold. The said raised rim is secured within and tosaid folds by means of the rivets 6.

The upper rim of the sidewall 1 is beaded or rolled at 12, and containsa tubular reinforcement body 2 which lends great strength and stiffnessto it.

The numeral 5 denotes one of a plurality of vertical channel-bars whichare mounted Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

Serial No. 24,514.

on opposite sides of the tank wall 1. Both the side-wall and saiduprights are provided with registering orifices at their upper and lowerends, and screw-bolts 7 are passed through the orifices inwardly, theirheads engaging the outer surface of the channelbars or uprights. Uponthe inwardly projecting parts of said bolts are mounted the nuts 8 incontact with the inner surface of the side-wall 1.

The numerals l0 and 11 denote bars or braces extending across the hollowof said tank, and crossing each other medially. Their extremities arebent upwardly and downwardly respectively on opposite ends, theangularly bent parts being orificed to permit them to be mounted on thebolts 7, and nuts 9 are then placed on the ends of the bolts to compressthe said bent ends upon the nuts 8 and the latter upon the inner wall ofthe tank so that the nuts 8 may seat themselves sealingly and flatlyagainst said wall.

The uprights 5 cooperate with bolts 7 and braces 10 and 11 to stronglyreinforce the tank and said bolts cannot pull out. The wholeconstruction is thus made lasting, and can withstand hard usage withoutdamage.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is:

A tank construction, comprising a tank having reinforcing bodies mountedon th opposite outer sides thereof, the bodies and the tank wall havingspaced pairs of registering orifices, bolts passed from without throughsaid registering orifices, nuts on said bolts contacting with the innerwall of the tank, bars crossing each other medially and traversing theentire width of the hollow of the tank, having their ends bent angularlywith the angular parts orificed and said bolts passed through theirorifices, and lock-nuts mounted on the ends of the bolts to secure theangular parts of said bars on the oppositely-located bolts compressinglyagainst the first-mentioned nuts.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 14th day of April, 1915.

ANTON IV. KEGLER.

Witnesses:

G. G. KENNEDY, PEARL STANTON.

Copies of this patent, may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

